Part 24

Discusses the sequence of change in the forest.

OSTENFELD, C. H.

1908. On the Ecology and Distribution of the Grass-Wrack (Zostera marina) in Danish Waters. Rep. Danish Biol. Sta. to Board of Agriculture, Vol. XVI, 1908. Trans. from the Fiskeri-Beretning for 1907, pp. 1-62.

An important paper showing the controlling relation of marine vegetation upon animal associations and particularly the fish of the coast. References to related zoölogical papers.

MOORE, J. E. S.

1903. The Tanganyika Problem. pp. 371. London.

On pp. 107-119 Moore describes the invasion and succession of vegetation upon alluvial flats, recently drained. A graphic account of forest invasion. Apparently a little known study.

ERNST, A. (Trans. by A. C. SEWARD.)

1908. The New Flora of the Volcanic Island of Krakatau. pp. 74. Cambridge.

A study of the invasion of vegetation upon a new land surface formed by volcanic activity. Such studies as this aid one in breaking away from the older static view of vegetation and in seeing its more vital aspect.

VAUGHAN, T. W.

1911. The Geological Work of Mangroves in Southern Florida. Smithsonian Miscell. Coll. (Quart. Issue), Vol. LII, pp. 461-464.

Plants as agents in the formation of animal habitats.

WEISS, F. E.

1909. A Preliminary Account of the Submerged Vegetation of Lake Windermere as Affecting the Feeding Ground of Fish. Mem. and Pro. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc., Manchester Memoirs, 1908-1909, Vol. LIII, Mem. 11, pp. 1-9.

TRANSEAU, E. N.

1908. The Relation of Plant Societies to Evaporation. Bot. Gaz., Vol. XLV, pp. 217-231.

Shows vegetational control upon the relative humidity of the air.

FULLER, G. D.

1911. Evaporation and Plant Succession. Bot. Gaz., Vol. LII, pp. 193-208.

Further studies of the vegetational control of the relative evaporating power of the air.

SHELFORD, V. E.

1907. Preliminary Note on the Distribution of the Tiger Beetles (Cicindela) and its Relation to Plant Succession. Biol. Bull., Vol. XIV, pp. 9-14.

The sequence of vegetational changes which determine the habitats of a predaceous insect.

1912. Ecological Succession. IV. Vegetation and the Control of Land Animal Communities. Biol. Bull., Vol. XXIII, pp. 59-99.

An important paper correlating the development of the vegetation and the changing animal associations.

COOK, O. F.

1909. Vegetation Affected by Agriculture in Central America. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Plant Industry, Bull. No. 145. pp. 30.